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Change the background color of the Cognos Welcome Banner in V12.

  • 1.  Change the background color of the Cognos Welcome Banner in V12.

    Posted Tue April 09, 2024 03:07 PM
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    Hi All,

    i would like to know if there is a possibility to change the background color of the Cogos Welcome Banner in V12.

    Attached the screen shot.

    Thanks,

    John



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    John Nuthalapaty
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  • 2.  RE: Change the background color of the Cognos Welcome Banner in V12.

    Posted Mon April 22, 2024 11:32 AM

    Hi John,

    you can change in the content.css file the property background-color for .ca-home-welcomeBanner from #161616 to some other value. After the change no restart is needed however clear the cache of the browser to be able see the result of the change immediately.

    Kind regards

    Peter Mandzak



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  • 3.  RE: Change the background color of the Cognos Welcome Banner in V12.

    Posted Mon April 22, 2024 12:02 PM
    Edited by Robert Dostal Mon April 22, 2024 12:01 PM

    Hi John,

    if you have an on-premise installation the file mentioned is stored here:

    ..\analytics\webcontent\bi\css\ca-content



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    Robert Dostal
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    GEMÜ Gebr. Müller Apparatebau GmbH & Co. KG
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  • 4.  RE: Change the background color of the Cognos Welcome Banner in V12.

    Posted Wed April 24, 2024 05:19 PM

    Thanks, Peter.

    it worked fine. I had to change the font of the text also and had to make more changes.

    Thanks once again.



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  • 5.  RE: Change the background color of the Cognos Welcome Banner in V12.

    Posted Wed April 24, 2024 05:22 PM
    Edited by John Nuthalapaty Wed April 24, 2024 05:22 PM



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  • 6.  RE: Change the background color of the Cognos Welcome Banner in V12.

    Posted Tue April 23, 2024 08:33 AM
    Edited by Jim Boland Tue April 23, 2024 08:33 AM

    Hi John,

    Another approach to changing the CSS styling for this element is to do it with an extension. Extensions can be used for a lot of purposes, but one of these is the goal you are trying to accomplish (modifying styling of the UI). To do this, the extension introduces its own CSS file(s) to override the default styling of the targeted elements in the CA UI.

    The advantages to doing this in an extension (versus modifying the CA CSS file directly on the server) are:

    • Doesn't require access to the CA server
    • Works for cloud as well as on-prem installations
    • For a  multiple app-server installation, it automatically gets applied to all app servers (and automatically to any future app servers added to the installation)
    • Changes survive an upgrade of CA software version

    I uploaded a sample of such an extension in an earlier post:  - blurry.zip.

    If you modify the blurry.css file in this extension you could replace the text-shadow override with the color override that you want, targeting the banner element. 



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  • 7.  RE: Change the background color of the Cognos Welcome Banner in V12.